Auditions for Spotlight Theater

Do you have talent? Have you ever dreamed of being on “American Idol”, “The Voice”, or “So You Think You Can Dance,” or do you simply want an opportunity to display your unique gift of drama, dance, spoken word or song? Well come out and audition for the first annual Holiday Spotlight Theater, put on by your Arabia Mountain High School’s very own Spotlight Drama Club.  The audition will be held on Monday 11/17/14 from 3:30-5:00 in the theater.  If you would like to reserve your audition spot, please stop by Mrs. Mathieu’s room E101 or Mr. Campbell’s room E104 between now and Monday.

Drama Club Officers and Description of Duties

President

1. Presides at all meetings
2. Appoints all committees and committee members
3. With Club advisors, plans, coordinates and supervises club activities
4. Represents the Drama Club at school-wide activities, such as assemblies and freshmen orientation
5. If cast in a production, the president is still responsible for ALL duties relating to the post.  If the vice president is not cast, he or she may stand in for the president.  Otherwise, it is the president’s responsibility to fulfill his or her club duties.

Vice President

1. Attends all Club meetings
2. Presides in the absence of the president
3. Is responsible for the induction of new members
4. Serves as a committee chairperson for both the fall and spring productions
5. If cast in a production, the vice president is still responsible for ALL duties relating to the post. 

Secretary

1. Attends all Club meetings
2. Keeps the records of meetings
3. Attends to Club correspondence
4. Writes and submits announcements
5. Collects information from all committees and reports to the club advisors.
6. If cast in a production, the secretary is still responsible for ALL duties relating to the post.

Treasurer

1. Attends all Club meetings
2. Acts as the head of the Front-of-House (FOH) committee for the Fall and Spring productions, coordinating ticket sales, pre-sale dates, and ticket takers and ushers for both shows
3. Collects Club dues from members at the first meeting and keeps records of who has paid.
4. If cast in a production, the treasurer is still responsible for ALL duties relating to the post.

Historian

1. Attends all Club meetings
2. Keeps the records of all activities: plays, production dates, casts, crews, etc.
3. Keeps a scrapbook of news clippings, posters, programs, etc.
4. Serves as a committee chairperson for both the fall and spring productions
5. If cast in a production, the historian is still responsible for ALL duties relating to the post.

Cheer-Meister

1. Attends all Club meetings
2. Helps recruit new members
3. Acts as a mentor to new Club members by answering questions and helping them to feel welcome and appreciated in the club
4. Maintains an overall attitude of cheerfulness and positive energy in order to remind club members that Plays are meant to be fun!

Follow The Beat - Atlanta Black Theater Festival October's Outing Recommendation

*SATURDAY, 10/11/14****

FOLLOW THE BEAT by Larry Bryant

Written and Directed by Larry Bryant, Follow the beat traverses the history of urban music beginning with the dance troupes in South Africa and ending with a group of innovative teenagers on the street corners of New York City. Find yourself inside a time machine that forces you to fasten your seatbelts and follow the beat with African and liturgical dance, poetry and spoken word, with live performances paying tribute to music greats like Diana Ross, Billie Holiday, The Surpremes, Michael Jackson, Tina Turner and many more! (Atlanta, GA: Certified Entertainment)  @ 12:00noon FAMILY FUN!

For more information go to http://www.atlantabtf.org/​ 

This will be held at the Porter Sanford Theater - to purchase tickets go to  http://www.atlantabtf.org/saturday-s-plays.html

40 Plays in 4 Days...A Theatre Lover's Paradise!

thursday
 10/9/14

sunday

10/12/14

saturday
 10/11/14

friday
 10/10/14

All events held at the magnificent...

Porter Sanford III Performing Arts Center

3181 Rainbow Drive

Decatur, GA 30034

 

The Urban Nutcracker - November's Outing

A an excellent artist has an appreciation and application for all art forms.  Dance is a form of art that uses drama to convey messages.  For our November outing, we are planning on taking a trip down to the Ferst Center for the Performing Arts to see the Urban Nutcracker.  You are not required to attend, but if you can afford to go, we will have a ball.  We are planning for Friday November 21st after practice or Saturday November 22, 2014.  We will discuss this more in our next meeting on 10/13/14.  

Practice is cancelled for 10/6/14

The drama club will not practice on 10/6/14, but it
will resume practice on 10/13/14 in room E101 from 3:20-4:15.  Please see
Mrs. Mathieu or Mr. Campbell with questions. 

Please remember to bring your dues of $30 to class. 

Improvisation Situations:

Now that you have a better understanding of stage directions, it is time to practice putting those directions into action via improvisation.  First, choose an improvisation scenario below.  Then, practice for about 3 minutes with a partner using the stage directions that you have learned about. You will be evaluated using the rubric below.  

A Restaurant customer is complaining to his waiter about a hamburger he ordered.

Two friends are looking at the basketball team cut list that is posted on the door of the school gym.

The security guard in a jewelry store stops a customer and asks to look in his jacket pocket.

Two patients are waiting in a dentist’s waiting room.

Two painters are painting a room

Two Students are in the Library working on a research paper together.

A woman is in a nail salon having her nails done by a manicurist.

A teenager who has been grounded is attempting to sneak out of the house.  Just as he is about to leave his parent walks in the room.

A parachuting instructor is about to give a student the signal to make the first jump.

A homeowner answers his front door and finds a door to door vacuum cleaner salesman.

Two Students are waiting outside the principal’s office because they have been in a fight.

A singer and his piano accompanist are discussing the possibility of including some new songs in their act.

Two construction workers are building the foundation for a house when they discover a treasure chest.

A Doctor wants to inject his patient with a string pain killer, the patient is in extreme pain.

A police officer sees an adult trying to break into a locked car.

Two people on the sidewalk simultaneously reach for a 20$ bill lying on the ground.

A teenager with a radio that is blaring loud rock music sits down on a bus near an elderly person.

Two friends are lying out on the beach.

You are saying goodbye to someone you love at the airport.

A prisoner in jail is talking to a jailor.

You are a foreign exchange student staying at the home of a family that speaks no English. This is your first dinner together.

A gym teacher holding a folded piece of paper runs into one of his students in the hall.

Two friends are at a party when they notice the time.  It is way past their curfew.

A supermarket cashier notices another cashier stealing money from the register.